Tuesday’s vote provides no guarantee that supervisors will approve Kamilos’ plan, a report says.

Under pressure from the West Side, Kamilos recently downsized the West Park vision from 4,800 to 2,800 acres. His plan includes shipping Pacific Rim exports to the Port of Oakland via short-haul rail from Crows Landing, with Asian imports coming the other way.

Also Tuesday, supervisors unanimously:

• Scheduled a June 28 public hearing to raise garbage bills in most unincorporated areas. Homeowners would pay 1.17 percent to 2.19 percent more, depending on location, and commercial rates would rise as much as 1.9 percent.

• Approved a short-term contract with no pay cuts for home care providers. Represented by United Domestic Workers, 4,600 In-Home Supportive Services providers in this county are paid $53 million a year at $9.38 hourly wages. Many protested for several weeks at supervisors’ meetings when county officers wanted to drop pay to $8-per-hour minimum wage. The contract expired Sept. 30; the new deal extends its terms until the end of September, with bargaining expected to resume in July. State financial support, expected to erode, could affect negotiations. “I don’t think anybody won” the current round, county Chief Executive Rick Robinson said.

• Scheduled a July 12 public hearing to conclude voting on a storm drain district by property owners in a business park section north of Modesto. Summit Corporate Center initially was skeptical about expanding its district, southwest of Bangs and McHenry avenues, to fix $46,000 worth of flooding problems north of Bangs in the Bangs Industrial Park. But Summit’s fees would drop by half in some cases and more in others, a new report says. Fees north of Bangs would range from $89.36 to $363.16 per acre.

• Initiated creation of a lighting district near Kenwood, Mitchell and Starr avenues in northeast Turlock. Some owners of 51 homes submitted a petition, saying about 14 streetlights would increase security. Property owners will vote on the idea after an engineer computes the cost per lot.

• Approved paying $30,000 more to upgrade traffic lights at Hatch and Crows Landing roads, south of Modesto. The vote rejects MCI Engineering’s $452,577 low bid after verifying that subcontractors would do 65 percent of the work, violating rules limiting subcontracting to half of a project. Exceptions could create an unfair advantage to the bid winner, a report says. The county instead will pay Granite Construction Co. $482,398.

• Agreed to help Patterson build restrooms at its South Park bus stop on South Salado Avenue between Plaza Circle and Highway 33. County transit money will pay $105,000 of the $127,000 cost.

• Approved demolishing fire-damaged, vacant buildings at 510 Hatch Road, Modesto, and citing the owner of 4418 Crow Road in Waterford for allowing eight mobile homes and a recreational vehicle on land zoned for two dwellings. Some had discharged raw sewage on the land, a report says.

• Agreed to support relicensing of the Don Pedro project, built in 1966 by the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts with funding help from San Francisco and state and federal agencies.

• Adopted a hazard-mitigation plan focused on reducing losses before disasters, such as flooding, wildfires and earthquakes. “We want to make sure our communities are disaster-resistant and resilient,” said Gary Hinshaw, county fire warden.

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